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   Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 27-May-2024 15:35:54 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   Terrible idea: an author writes a book, but instead of releasing it, they train an LLM on it, and release the model.

   So readers can ask the LLM to generate text based on it, but can never know the original text.

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     Annika Backstrom (annika@xoxo.zone)'s status on Monday, 27-May-2024 15:35:53 JST Annika Backstrom

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     @foone Is that more or less cursed than asking Martin Shkreli to sing Wu-Tang Clan's "Once Upon a Time in Shaolin?"

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     Ian Douglas Scott (ids1024@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 27-May-2024 15:49:53 JST Ian Douglas Scott

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     @foone You can also imagine this inadvertently becoming the only record of some work, in some distant future.

     Alien archaeologists: "Our records show that in the late days of human civilization, before the Antimatter Wars of the 2050s, the works of a bard named 'Tolkien' were popular. But after the Great Copyright Enforcement Purge of the libraries, then the war, all we have are excerpts, ritualistic graphics called 'memes' and one language model that produces in-universe erotic literature."

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     Glyph (glyph@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-May-2024 15:49:57 JST Glyph

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     @foone I seem to remember a performance-art bit in the floppy disk era which was a single-user experience (a hypertext book, IIRC) that deleted itself after viewing, and was never put online. This reminded me of it but I cannot remember what it was called. Fitting, perhaps.

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